Events in the year 1805 in Art.
June – The British Institution is established in London.
The British Museum purchases Charles Townley's collection of Roman sculpture.
William Blake begins work on the illustrations for Blair's The Grave.
William Blake – The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne (pencil and watercolour)
Vincenzo Camuccini – The Death of Caesar
John Sell Cotman – Greta Bridge
Jacques-Louis David – Portrait of Pope Pius VII
François Gérard
Portrait of Catherine Worlée, Princesse de Talleyrand-Périgord (1804-05)
Portrait of Madame Récamier
James Gillray – The Plumb-pudding in danger, or, State epicures taking un petit souper
Francisco Goya (approximate dates)
The Clothed Maja
Portrait of Doña Isabel de Porcel
Thomas Douglas Guest – Bearing the Dead Body of Patroclus to the Camp, Achilles's Grief
Orest Kiprensky – Prince Dmitri Donskoi after the Battle of Kulikovo
Joseph Denis Odevaere – Portrait of François Wynckelman, François van der Donckt and Joseph Odevaere (Groeningemuseum)
Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
Grand Prix de Rome, music: Ferdinand Gasse & Victor Dourlen.
January 4 – Carlo Marochetti, sculptor (died 1867)
January 27 – Samuel Palmer, landscape painter and etcher (died 1881)
April 5 – Samuel Forde, painter (died 1828)
April 20 – Franz Xaver Winterhalter, painter (died 1873)
May 11 – Philipp Foltz, painter (died 1877)
July 14 – John Frederick Lewis, painter (died 1876)
July 26 – Constantino Brumidi, fresco painter (died 1880)
September 6 – Horatio Greenough, sculptor (died 1852)
September 10 – Guillaume Geefs, sculptor (died 1883)
October 23 – Adalbert Stifter, Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue (died 1868)
February 2 – Thomas Banks, sculptor (born 1735)
March 4 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter (born 1725)
April 28 – Charles-Antoine Bridan, French sculptor (born 1730)
May 2 – Vieira Portuense, painter (born 1765)
May 24 – Fedot Shubin, Russia sculptor (born 1740)
June 7 – James Gabriel Huquier, portrait painter and engraver (born 1725)
June 19 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter (born 1724)
July 10 – Thomas Wedgwood, pioneer photographer (born 1771)
December 6 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, painter and inventor of the pencil (born 1755)
December 27 – Jean-Baptiste Claudot, French painter of landscapes, flowers, and still-life (born 1733)
date unknown
Pyotr Drozhdin, Russian painter (born 1745)
Gustaf Lucander, Finnish painter (born 1724)
Francesco Pozzi, Italian engraver (born 1750)
Marie-Thérèse Reboul, French painter of natural history, still lifes, and flowers (born 1728)
Deng Shiru, Chinese calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (born 1739/1743)
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